Apple in Name Claim Game
p2pnet.net News:- Apple now figures it should own the rights to the word ‘Pod’. And No. This isn’t a spoof.
It’s, “arguing that other companies that use the word as part of their product names risk infringing the trademark of its popular iPod music player,” says The Financial Times, going on:
“Lawyers acting for Apple have in recent days written to at least two companies that use the word ‘Pod’ asking them to drop the word from their product names, though the wider extent of the legal challenge remains unclear.
“Dave Ellison, whose company, Mach5Products, makes the Profit Pod, said he had been sent a ‘cease and desist’ request by Apple’s lawyers last week, just after receiving trademark recognition for his product name in the US.”
Terry Wilson makes of TightPods slip-on covers and she says she too, “has been challenged” by Apple after trying to get trademark protection for her product name.
“I’ll change the name if [they] will pay for the expenses of doing so – it’s expensive,” she the FT has her saying.
But Apple isn’t alone in playing the Name Claim Game. Google, too, believes it has special dibs on google.
However, as a p2pnet reader points out, "People talk like the word Google is new and original. Like everything else on the net it was stolen from something else. In this case googol which stands for 10 to the power of 100. Also Douglas Adams coined the word first in the ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’.
"Personally, I think they have caused their own problem with the overuse of the word Google, shoved down our throats constantly. They didn’t seem to have a problem with people using the verb ‘google’ while they were fighting their way to the top, were they?"
Stay tuned.
Also See:
The Financial Times – Apple lays legal claim to the word ‘Pod’, August 15, 2006
Name Claim Game – No googling, says Google, August 14, 2006
August 16th, 2006 at 11:01 am
i’ll google your ass
i can google all i want
google this!
i wonder what will happen to POD’s the company that makes those portable “PODS” that you pack your stuff into when you move.
ww w.pods.c om/
i find this rather ridiculous considering apple named their product IPOD and not POD
if you wanted to own the rights to POD your dumb asses should have named your product POD not iPOD.
this is similar to microsoft suing “LINDOWS” because it infringed their trademark. i found that to be stupid as well considering not even the stupidest of people would mistake LINDOWS for WINDOWS.
again, if you want the trademark, name your product correctly, otherwise, suck it!